Share 'Bullet Wounds in Westerns'

I enjoyed the comments on Jolene Little's question about gun accuracy.  How about this one? In nearly every one of the 30's & 40's Western movies the hero was always wounded in the shoulder, the upper arm, or perhaps, off-center in the lower belly.  Those .44 slugs would have done a lot more damage in those areas, damage that couldn't have been healed by a few days bed rest, wrapped up in a t…